ABSTRACT
In the era of global warming, long-distance travel has become a controversial and politically contested arena. This chapter examines how travel itself complicates the representation of time as well as how the experience of time and temporalities affects and is affected by questions of genre, exterior conditions, and cultural imaginaries. Considering the complexity of time and temporality, one can wonder why these aspects remain an underexplored area within research on travel writing. A possible explanation would be that the spatial turn found a direct resonance in research on travels. Historical time, mythological time, and different temporal aspects are actualised in different passages, creating a range of dynamic perspectives. The compilation of multiple discourses and narrative voices, typical for travel writing, results in a narration in which the relationship between story time and narrative time is not always coherent. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
